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Making A Toilet Into A Shower

When combining a WC & bathroom into one room the old WC often makes an ideal position for a large shower. Here are a couple of options of how to treat the space.

Overview

In UK houses there is often a bathroom and a separate WC at the top of the stairs.

Many people choose to knock these through into one spacious room and the merits of doing this vs. keeping them separate are discussed here

However, this article focuses on what you could do with the old toilet assuming you DO knock through……

Option 1: Block up the old WC entrance and make a huge shower enclosure with a single door.

This approach involves keeping the old entryway into the bathroom.

In this example, the shower tray takes up the whole of the old toilet. (This shower tray is 1200 x 800mm, though you may be able to fit in a 1400mm long tray depending on the size of your house.)

The shower valve on the right sits in the space that used to be the old doorway into the toilet and the glass door occupies the space that the dividing wall between the toilet and the bathroom previously occupied.